"Come now son of my wish's mistress," the spirit of magic whispered, with a twinge of frustration at how long it was taking Ranma to awaken. "Let's get this show on the road."
After so many hundreds of years, more than a thousand, of nothing but the dwindling of magic, he was impatient to see his age of magic start again. All it would take is one touch, one family and the pebble would be started. It was almost too much to hope that Ranma would have contact with more than that.
He didn't really know much about Ranma's life, obviously.
Ranma's day started with a splash of water, which wasn't unusual. Nabiki had been having troubles sleeping all night and decided that if she couldn't sleep, Ranma couldn't sleep in.
A moment's "discussion" and a "demonic" quip later and Nabiki's finger dismissively flicked Ranma's forehead. Nabiki only blinked as the spirit of magic, worked his reality switching hands into the Tendo girls' family and inserted a demonic trace that was bound to come out soon.
Already the demon was planning out a sequence of coincidences to bring these two together later, but the time limit wasn't over yet and he could tell the girl's sisters were close at hand.
"Ah well," the demon thought. "One family should be enough to start the snowball running. I can feel a few cousin branches that share the bloodline I touched."
Within a short period of time, of course, those other touches came through. Kasumi patted Ranma on the head for helping with the morning chores first, just a few moments before he'd turned a corner into Akane.
It was then that things really got started.
Akane had, since almost dying, stopped reacting to Ranma as violently, but, unfortunately, a certain swordsman had come by to accept the thanks from Akane for stopping her wedding.
Seeing Ranma, long since turned back to male, and Akane entangled, however accidentally, sent the "looney" charging at Ranma.
When Ranma's fist hit Kuno's face, the spirit gladly reached out to alter Kodachi's older brother into her older sister, and likewise touch the memories of everyone that knew the family. Twisting Ranma's commentary about, the spirit added a "lunar" touch to the Kuno family along with the new case of "puppy" love.
The fight with Kuno lasted a bit longer than normal, heading outside. Once outside, the younger Kuno got into the act. Ukyou and Shampoo weren't far behind by this point.
The spirit didn't need to wait for an idea from Ranma for Shampoo. Generations of life near Jusenkyo suddenly had a building effect that was going to touch a couple of important Amazon families.
With Ukyou, he went back to basics, a touch of elven blood that would react to the newly increased magics. By the time those girls had moved to their own fight, three more (all former males) had joined the situation.
By the time Ranma was knocked unconscious in the chaos, ending the period of enchantment, Ranma had ten destined brides, and seven families in Eastern Asia had been touched by magical potential.
The enchantment was done, now all that remained was to make sure the wish was completed. The trail of events was already in play...
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